Questions about the e-invoicing mandate
Who must be able to receive e-invoices?
Businesses in Germany must be able to accept structured e-invoices in the B2B space. Receiving is the first obligation; mandatory sending follows in stages. ZepDesk covers both directions.
What is the difference between XRechnung and ZUGFeRD?
XRechnung is a pure XML format intended for public-sector clients. ZUGFeRD is a PDF with embedded XML that both people and machines can read. Both meet the EU standard CEN 16931.
Is a PDF invoice by email enough?
No. A plain PDF is not an e-invoice as defined by the standard, because the data cannot be read out in structured form. ZepDesk therefore always produces a standard-compliant format.
How long must I keep e-invoices?
Ten years, in the original structured format. ZepDesk stores the original unchanged and logs every access.
Your invoice becomes a machine-readable data set.
On the left you type as always; on the right, the fields that XRechnung and ZUGFeRD require under the EU standard CEN 16931 take shape.
Field names from the EU standard. ZepDesk fills them from the details you enter anyway.
Set up e-invoicing today.
Create customers, store the Leitweg-ID, send your first XRechnung. The rest runs from the normal invoice screen.